The Cypress SX is a road-oriented hybrid. It has road bike gearing, with a low-rise handlebar. It isn't a bad choice for the usage that you describe. A full drop-bar, thin tire road bike will never handle the off-road trail you describe.
OTOH, the Kona has mountain bike gearing, with smaller cranks in the front and larger sprockets in the rear cassette. So it would be somewhat slower but better on hills.
You could consider the Gary Fisher dual sport series bikes, that are mountain bikes that have been given a little bit better road manners. Models like the Kaitai or Utopia. Or the Cronus
Marin has a couple in the vein of the Cypress SX, like the Point Reyes and Novata.
And Specialized seems to think they have one for road and trail, but the tires are on the wide side for a lot of road usage:
http://www.specialized.com/bc/SBCBkModel.jsp?spid=21925
That's a tough double duty for a bike.